Wanting to install american bases and/or missile defence systems more than 10000km away from any US state or territory is not defence, it's aggression.
Ok, that's just simply retarded. If the Russians do something dumb to Germany or someone else, we have to respond by law with war. Massive war, probably. The missile system can prevent that.
Please use the internet (that thing you used to post) to look up "NATO" and get back to us folks who have a clue with further questions.
Please see Putin saber rattling article elsewhere on Slashdot today.
Seawolf class is designed to be able to project power.
The cheaper diesel littoral craft and subs do not project power.
Sure, the Chinese are tough, but only in their little corner of the world.
Seawolf is tough everywhere. That's the difference.
If you want to argue that the US should not be interfering with other countries then go ahead. But, when that happens get used to skyrocketing prices (we can no longer protect our cheap suppliers) and shortages of all sorts of stuff (when some other tinpot local decides to mess with our supplies).
The reasonable expectation of privacy on one's own property does not extend to accidentally revealing yourself to those off your property.
First off, it was a _cat_ sitting in a window. (Cats do that.) And if you look in the picture, the cat was on an object (looks like a custom cat furniture thing) right directly up against the window.
Tell ya what chyk, put your _other_ pussy up against the window and don't see if you get busted. Or if you really want to rile the cops up, a (gasp!) cannabis plant!
This is not a privacy issue at all. It's a "I am a dumb girl that doesn't realize how easy it is to see in" issue.
The only difference in what Google is doing and any gangbanger wannabee or cop walking around her neighborhood looking at her cat/pussy, is that Google is putting these on the web, and probably eventually A LOT of them on the web. As painful as it is to realize how much you might get seen in your living room, it isn't Google's fault or problem.
Large scale does not equal privacy invasion folks.
If this particular tribe is any indication of the others I have seen, simply saying "yeah, it's your RF space, you can have it" and then cutting off Satellite TV to the area would get them to shut their yaps right quick.
Ever seen a crappy trailer up on blocks, with three non-functioning cars, two starving dogs and _four_ brand new dishes pointed at different sats? Tells you where their traditional values are, sit on the couch in front of the tube.
Or, maybe just cut off modern medical supplies for a week. See how sovereign their 'nation' is.
Modern society has some give and take in it. These 'tards don"t seem to understand that.
Well, technically what you describe is not altruism or generosity in the framework TFA is on about.
You share 50% of your genes with your child (jokes aside), and therefore it is an expected benefit to your genes of valuing your child's life 50% of yours. Kids don't grow up and reproduce if you don't do the stuff you are doing, so you are hardwired for that. Same thing is true for brothers, cousins, tribal hunter gatherer members, etc. (To lesser extent as you get less and less related.)
TFA is talking about finding that humans are not making the pure rational decisions (like the examples above) and it is hard wired. Adding a proto-human to a large extended society reveals that somehow people do good stuff, despite all the 'cold calculations' saying they should choose otherwise.
The fact they found this means a whole branch of sociological philosophizing is radically changed.
If my own experience is correct, they will keep finding examples of these all over. Some time last year someone found how the brain of an adult male got stimulated in similar ways to drugs with visual input of an attractive sexual object. (Explaining why men seek out porn, sometimes for it's own sake beyond getting one's rocks off and while the actors are not accessible to them.) Porn is a side effect of that hard wiring.
The societies that had people hard wired to be altruistic did better. So this is a case where one can point to a behavior and say it has evolved via group selection, rather than trying to break it down to "why is it good for me" in some sort of convoluted logic because of an unwillingness to let go of the idea that the actors are doing rational calculations. (They're not, its just the ones that didn't act that way didn't reproduce as well and no longer exist.)
There is a niche for this tool, but it is a small one and not one that will pay $180 for this thing.
For example, I run no firewalls whatsoever on my home network, instead relying on my NAT router to keep inbound traffic out, and configuration / backups to keep risk to acceptable levels elsewhere.
Taking a laptop to a cafe or hotel or something, or a gaming machine to a LAN party means I'd have to muck around with a Firewall before (or just go without) going.
So I would use this thing there. But, probably not pay $180 for it.
I don't get why they would use USB. Why not an ethernet USB combination? (Where it is a network card too.) You still need to install a driver anyway for it to work, so why not a USB driver for a network card with a little firewall in it?
Maybe the hardware is just that expensive... I see little point in the size though. Why not make it like a small USB hub size and charge less. Or better yet just take an ordinary router and miniaturize with USB power supply over regular ethernet or something... Taking all the configuration options of a Linksys home router with a firewall built in a small USB package and I would pay $180 for that in a hearbeat.
Energy to cook inside during the summer has to be tripled again to get it out of the house.
I cook outside with charcoal during the summer to avoid more expensive electrical bills, and to allow comfort eating the food and sleeping that night in a cooler home.
During the summer, I use a wok outside on the grill, use it for meat, boiling water for coffee, steaming corn (which would otherwise be boiled in a big pot inside) and a bunch of other types of meals.
Doing all that inside leaves the kitchen is hot afterwards, which leads to the whole house being hot afterwards...
This, in addition to taste and the fact it is _fun_. Go back to your protein pills and crackers if you like, aside from sex, tasty food is life's other biggest joy and should be encouraged. (And, considering this is Slashdot, good food is very important as the sex will be rare.)
Actually, for a good portion of European history mild beer was pretty much the safest way to get liquid. Not only did it provide some calories and vitamins, it sterilized the water and helped lots of ugly Europeans get their groove on. They went on to dominate the world for a long time.
I, for one am doing my part to uphold European tradition by consuming large quantities of beer.
You are right though, the article is suspected FUD until proven to be FUD. Look for some bottled water company funding it in the background....
That looks more like 80 mph to me. I sorta want to find out what type of car it was as it sure blew up like the infamous Ford Pinto... to avoid riding in one.
Cops do often hang out near those things and he could have seen it from the side of the opposite lane, gone down to the "cop only" turn around point a couple hundred yards up and turned around.
There are fire extinguishers in each one of those booths, so it is sort of interesting how nobody went for one. Cops typically carry them too.
OR, more likely the reason they are making a stink out of it is the cop just started chasing him due to speeding and the dude tried to flee and ineptly ran into the thing. So, they are worried about getting sued by this dumbass' family for creating a dangerous situation (police chase).
There seems to be some confusion about the purpose of the take down. (So responding to parent is a good a place as any to mention it.)
The take down notice and restore notice is just a mechanism to pass identifying information from the alleged copyright owner to the alleged offender and back. Basically giving each the ID of the other for purposes of lawyering afterwards.
The WHOLE POINT of that part of the law is to take obscurity due to the hosting environment out of the loop. Too keep the host from saying "we don't know who posted it and we are not touching it" essentially leaving the alleged copyright holder stuck, but rather forcing them to either take it down or take it down, put it back up and make sure the two parties have legal contact information.
It is NOT a method for the ISP to review the authenticity of the notices at all. It's to make a connection between interested parties.
I wouldn't mind it so much, except these assholes don't seem to be _paying_ for the domains they squat on.
Fail to renew and it goes in a never ending loop of different "pending" statuses that doesn't let you buy them, meanwhile someone is USING them for a profit. How the fuck exactly does that work? It seems to me a "pending deletion" should show nothing, just not resolve. Yet there they are, linking what was formally a respected site to German scat porn.
They should arrest and shoot these assholes for using their "reseller status" fuck up the domain name registration process.
Even if you wanted to get them back, you can't. So it becomes so much of an internet cumstain on the wall doing nothing, looking ugly and nobody there cares to clean it up.
Uhm, well knowing who, what and how the bullshit bills that will never pass makes for a more educated public, no?
You think for a second that if somehow one congress member were able to force their particular bill through they wouldn't do it?
That creepy guy hanging out in the parking lot trying all the car door handles probably won't get anywhere either. But that doesn't mean ignoring the fact he is there is a good idea.
So take your "you guys are ignorant" comments and go back to reading CNN.com if you want whitewashed crap only suitable for the drooling masses. Or, get off your lazy software developer butt and modify your slashdot account so you don't see stories you don't want to see here. Or, better yet, simply go fuck yourself you arrogant prick.
Mythbusters did an episode on this issue using Mountaineer vehicles, a track, a steady speed, etc.
It came out that open windows beat air conditioning by something like 10 miles on a full tank of gas. In other words, the windows open vehicle went an additional 30 laps after the air conditioned one ran out of gas.
The "computer estimate" model gaging air flow to the engine indicated about 11 mpg for both, air and windows open, but that won't catch the computer running a richer mixture to push more... only a difference in RPM and gearing ratios.
Something might have gone wrong on their test, but my experience also reflects that air conditioning sucks up way more gas than open windows at least in my car.
Whomever started saying that air conditioning is more efficient didn't TEST it, and if they did, one a vehicle that had super-efficient air conditioning and not an SUV, or maybe they did use the gearing (but then leave that out) "some vehicles at X gear and Y rpm are more efficient with air on and closed windows".
Either way, I don't believe the air conditioning thing anymore.
Actually, the fact I have these lights all over lets me turn off my 17 watt CFLs and 60 watt incandecent lights and make my way around without turning on lights that will only be on for a few seconds when passing through or checking for the cats or whatever.
In any given week, I probably spend 80 minutes passing through work offices and server rooms and my own house NOT turning on the lights because the LCDs are there and give off enough to walk through.
Or, I could turn on 15 dual pack florescent lights to walk 30 seconds from one end of the hall to the other. THAT is a waste of light.
Those LCDs save power, in other words.
You fraidy-cats afraid of the dark with lights on all over use up more extra electricity than a few LCDs ever will.
Maybe for a subset of total readers it might make things better.
However, as a fast reader for short paragraphs in newspapers I can read the whole thing with one stop of the eyes and move to the next paragraph. For longer ones it's chunks of paragraphs.
Dicking about with the formatting won't help any, and will probably hurt a lot.
The words above and below help keep the eyes in place, and the words below get a bit of a chance to sing in before being read so results in faster reading.
Tilting my head causes the phenomenon to stop I go back to parsing a few words at a time.
Turning the entire text upside down forces me to stop, flip and read each word. Because of this I was able to read my philosophy texts in college better while tired because I would stop trying to absorb a complicated sentence all at once.
Plus, being able to read fast upside down is a good life skill to have.
Who gave the three agencies the right to hold this data over my head like a sledgehammer? I certainly don't remember signing anything. Ever try to get something _fixed_ in one of them?
Some scam front company owned or run by the same group wants me to now pay to fix the completely unaccountable and completely open to fraud "credit reporting business" to close off what is let's face it, a simple database lookup that they already charge a hundred bucks to do in the first place.
Jesus, words in my language do not contain anything strong enough to verbalize how much I want to say 'go screw yourself' to them.
My damn data is MINE. Nobody else's. Making money off it is in my opinion fraud and racketeering.
Face it man, the system is broken. Sometimes you just gotta give it one more kick and walk away and do something else.
Actually, once you are "cleared" by taking the expensive tests your body thetans are so low you are qualified to give others the tests, and can gain considerable fees as your part as a result.
It helps if you are a celebrity though, they get easier tests and make more money, in exchange they have to stay in the public limelight. There is a small risk of ending up in a padded room with that path though.
I know. It sucks people are always criticizing the father of the master race the great leader Adolf Hitler when they have already done that it's time to move on and talk about the good gun control measures and schooling for kids he had.
There, I just Goodwined your whinny little branch of this thread. Now go away. This is the wrong site for your complaints such as yours. Go spend your time whitewashing the rest of the republican agenda on Digg or something.
Coming from a guy that is overweight has terrible taste in web site colors, scamming his visitors for his pile of shit web site and quite obviously a pill popping faggot you got a lot of nerve making those assumptions.
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What, as if "unbiased" means "ignore blatant evidence of lying and corruption" now?
Is that sort of like "truthiness"?
Wanting to install american bases and/or missile defence systems more than 10000km away from any US state or territory is not defence, it's aggression.
Ok, that's just simply retarded. If the Russians do something dumb to Germany or someone else, we have to respond by law with war. Massive war, probably. The missile system can prevent that.
Please use the internet (that thing you used to post) to look up "NATO" and get back to us folks who have a clue with further questions.
Please see Putin saber rattling article elsewhere on Slashdot today.
Seawolf class is designed to be able to project power.
The cheaper diesel littoral craft and subs do not project power.
Sure, the Chinese are tough, but only in their little corner of the world.
Seawolf is tough everywhere. That's the difference.
If you want to argue that the US should not be interfering with other countries then go ahead. But, when that happens get used to skyrocketing prices (we can no longer protect our cheap suppliers) and shortages of all sorts of stuff (when some other tinpot local decides to mess with our supplies).
The reasonable expectation of privacy on one's own property does not extend to accidentally revealing yourself to those off your property.
First off, it was a _cat_ sitting in a window. (Cats do that.) And if you look in the picture, the cat was on an object (looks like a custom cat furniture thing) right directly up against the window.
Tell ya what chyk, put your _other_ pussy up against the window and don't see if you get busted. Or if you really want to rile the cops up, a (gasp!) cannabis plant!
This is not a privacy issue at all. It's a "I am a dumb girl that doesn't realize how easy it is to see in" issue.
The only difference in what Google is doing and any gangbanger wannabee or cop walking around her neighborhood looking at her cat/pussy, is that Google is putting these on the web, and probably eventually A LOT of them on the web. As painful as it is to realize how much you might get seen in your living room, it isn't Google's fault or problem.
Large scale does not equal privacy invasion folks.
If this particular tribe is any indication of the others I have seen, simply saying "yeah, it's your RF space, you can have it" and then cutting off Satellite TV to the area would get them to shut their yaps right quick.
Ever seen a crappy trailer up on blocks, with three non-functioning cars, two starving dogs and _four_ brand new dishes pointed at different sats? Tells you where their traditional values are, sit on the couch in front of the tube.
Or, maybe just cut off modern medical supplies for a week. See how sovereign their 'nation' is.
Modern society has some give and take in it. These 'tards don"t seem to understand that.
Well, technically what you describe is not altruism or generosity in the framework TFA is on about.
You share 50% of your genes with your child (jokes aside), and therefore it is an expected benefit to your genes of valuing your child's life 50% of yours. Kids don't grow up and reproduce if you don't do the stuff you are doing, so you are hardwired for that. Same thing is true for brothers, cousins, tribal hunter gatherer members, etc. (To lesser extent as you get less and less related.)
TFA is talking about finding that humans are not making the pure rational decisions (like the examples above) and it is hard wired. Adding a proto-human to a large extended society reveals that somehow people do good stuff, despite all the 'cold calculations' saying they should choose otherwise.
The fact they found this means a whole branch of sociological philosophizing is radically changed.
If my own experience is correct, they will keep finding examples of these all over. Some time last year someone found how the brain of an adult male got stimulated in similar ways to drugs with visual input of an attractive sexual object. (Explaining why men seek out porn, sometimes for it's own sake beyond getting one's rocks off and while the actors are not accessible to them.) Porn is a side effect of that hard wiring.
The societies that had people hard wired to be altruistic did better. So this is a case where one can point to a behavior and say it has evolved via group selection, rather than trying to break it down to "why is it good for me" in some sort of convoluted logic because of an unwillingness to let go of the idea that the actors are doing rational calculations. (They're not, its just the ones that didn't act that way didn't reproduce as well and no longer exist.)
There is a niche for this tool, but it is a small one and not one that will pay $180 for this thing.
For example, I run no firewalls whatsoever on my home network, instead relying on my NAT router to keep inbound traffic out, and configuration / backups to keep risk to acceptable levels elsewhere.
Taking a laptop to a cafe or hotel or something, or a gaming machine to a LAN party means I'd have to muck around with a Firewall before (or just go without) going.
So I would use this thing there. But, probably not pay $180 for it.
I don't get why they would use USB. Why not an ethernet USB combination? (Where it is a network card too.) You still need to install a driver anyway for it to work, so why not a USB driver for a network card with a little firewall in it?
Maybe the hardware is just that expensive... I see little point in the size though. Why not make it like a small USB hub size and charge less. Or better yet just take an ordinary router and miniaturize with USB power supply over regular ethernet or something... Taking all the configuration options of a Linksys home router with a firewall built in a small USB package and I would pay $180 for that in a hearbeat.
Energy to cook inside during the summer has to be tripled again to get it out of the house.
I cook outside with charcoal during the summer to avoid more expensive electrical bills, and to allow comfort eating the food and sleeping that night in a cooler home.
During the summer, I use a wok outside on the grill, use it for meat, boiling water for coffee, steaming corn (which would otherwise be boiled in a big pot inside) and a bunch of other types of meals.
Doing all that inside leaves the kitchen is hot afterwards, which leads to the whole house being hot afterwards...
This, in addition to taste and the fact it is _fun_. Go back to your protein pills and crackers if you like, aside from sex, tasty food is life's other biggest joy and should be encouraged. (And, considering this is Slashdot, good food is very important as the sex will be rare.)
Actually, for a good portion of European history mild beer was pretty much the safest way to get liquid. Not only did it provide some calories and vitamins, it sterilized the water and helped lots of ugly Europeans get their groove on. They went on to dominate the world for a long time.
I, for one am doing my part to uphold European tradition by consuming large quantities of beer.
You are right though, the article is suspected FUD until proven to be FUD. Look for some bottled water company funding it in the background....
That looks more like 80 mph to me. I sorta want to find out what type of car it was as it sure blew up like the infamous Ford Pinto... to avoid riding in one.
Cops do often hang out near those things and he could have seen it from the side of the opposite lane, gone down to the "cop only" turn around point a couple hundred yards up and turned around.
There are fire extinguishers in each one of those booths, so it is sort of interesting how nobody went for one. Cops typically carry them too.
OR, more likely the reason they are making a stink out of it is the cop just started chasing him due to speeding and the dude tried to flee and ineptly ran into the thing. So, they are worried about getting sued by this dumbass' family for creating a dangerous situation (police chase).
There seems to be some confusion about the purpose of the take down. (So responding to parent is a good a place as any to mention it.)
The take down notice and restore notice is just a mechanism to pass identifying information from the alleged copyright owner to the alleged offender and back. Basically giving each the ID of the other for purposes of lawyering afterwards.
The WHOLE POINT of that part of the law is to take obscurity due to the hosting environment out of the loop. Too keep the host from saying "we don't know who posted it and we are not touching it" essentially leaving the alleged copyright holder stuck, but rather forcing them to either take it down or take it down, put it back up and make sure the two parties have legal contact information.
It is NOT a method for the ISP to review the authenticity of the notices at all. It's to make a connection between interested parties.
I wouldn't mind it so much, except these assholes don't seem to be _paying_ for the domains they squat on.
Fail to renew and it goes in a never ending loop of different "pending" statuses that doesn't let you buy them, meanwhile someone is USING them for a profit. How the fuck exactly does that work? It seems to me a "pending deletion" should show nothing, just not resolve. Yet there they are, linking what was formally a respected site to German scat porn.
They should arrest and shoot these assholes for using their "reseller status" fuck up the domain name registration process.
Even if you wanted to get them back, you can't. So it becomes so much of an internet cumstain on the wall doing nothing, looking ugly and nobody there cares to clean it up.
Uhm, well knowing who, what and how the bullshit bills that will never pass makes for a more educated public, no?
You think for a second that if somehow one congress member were able to force their particular bill through they wouldn't do it?
That creepy guy hanging out in the parking lot trying all the car door handles probably won't get anywhere either. But that doesn't mean ignoring the fact he is there is a good idea.
So take your "you guys are ignorant" comments and go back to reading CNN.com if you want whitewashed crap only suitable for the drooling masses. Or, get off your lazy software developer butt and modify your slashdot account so you don't see stories you don't want to see here. Or, better yet, simply go fuck yourself you arrogant prick.
Mythbusters did an episode on this issue using Mountaineer vehicles, a track, a steady speed, etc.
It came out that open windows beat air conditioning by something like 10 miles on a full tank of gas. In other words, the windows open vehicle went an additional 30 laps after the air conditioned one ran out of gas.
The "computer estimate" model gaging air flow to the engine indicated about 11 mpg for both, air and windows open, but that won't catch the computer running a richer mixture to push more... only a difference in RPM and gearing ratios.
Something might have gone wrong on their test, but my experience also reflects that air conditioning sucks up way more gas than open windows at least in my car.
Whomever started saying that air conditioning is more efficient didn't TEST it, and if they did, one a vehicle that had super-efficient air conditioning and not an SUV, or maybe they did use the gearing (but then leave that out) "some vehicles at X gear and Y rpm are more efficient with air on and closed windows".
Either way, I don't believe the air conditioning thing anymore.
Actually, the fact I have these lights all over lets me turn off my 17 watt CFLs and 60 watt incandecent lights and make my way around without turning on lights that will only be on for a few seconds when passing through or checking for the cats or whatever.
In any given week, I probably spend 80 minutes passing through work offices and server rooms and my own house NOT turning on the lights because the LCDs are there and give off enough to walk through.
Or, I could turn on 15 dual pack florescent lights to walk 30 seconds from one end of the hall to the other. THAT is a waste of light.
Those LCDs save power, in other words.
You fraidy-cats afraid of the dark with lights on all over use up more extra electricity than a few LCDs ever will.
I was going to mod you funny but realized it was accidental.
You just described (without the color and competing pirates) a game called "Ninja Burger" almost exactly.
It's a fun game if you are into that stuff and like ninjas.
Maybe for a subset of total readers it might make things better.
However, as a fast reader for short paragraphs in newspapers I can read the whole thing with one stop of the eyes and move to the next paragraph. For longer ones it's chunks of paragraphs.
Dicking about with the formatting won't help any, and will probably hurt a lot.
The words above and below help keep the eyes in place, and the words below get a bit of a chance to sing in before being read so results in faster reading.
Tilting my head causes the phenomenon to stop I go back to parsing a few words at a time.
Turning the entire text upside down forces me to stop, flip and read each word. Because of this I was able to read my philosophy texts in college better while tired because I would stop trying to absorb a complicated sentence all at once.
Plus, being able to read fast upside down is a good life skill to have.
Well, except you are missing the fact that they tend to chew up and financially and otherwise destroy their own members...
By all means, join them if you feel lucky....
Hey, what form do I get to do that?
Not a scientologist, but willing to claim to be one on a tax form.
Care to explain how peaceful picketing is "interfering with religion"? You skipped completely over that part and went on to praise the scientologists.
Is shilling a part time thing, or do they pay you well for it?
Wait? Are you implying that holding a sign outside a building while standing on public property is infringing on the rights of someone inside somehow?
Really?
Cuz there's a whole lot of example cases (generated by the anti-abortionists) that says you are wrong.
Had your thetans cleared recently? I think you are about due, there is a bit of dissonance going on in your aliens or something.
What?
One scam, built upon another scam?
Who gave the three agencies the right to hold this data over my head like a sledgehammer? I certainly don't remember signing anything. Ever try to get something _fixed_ in one of them?
Some scam front company owned or run by the same group wants me to now pay to fix the completely unaccountable and completely open to fraud "credit reporting business" to close off what is let's face it, a simple database lookup that they already charge a hundred bucks to do in the first place.
Jesus, words in my language do not contain anything strong enough to verbalize how much I want to say 'go screw yourself' to them.
My damn data is MINE. Nobody else's. Making money off it is in my opinion fraud and racketeering.
Face it man, the system is broken. Sometimes you just gotta give it one more kick and walk away and do something else.
Actually, once you are "cleared" by taking the expensive tests your body thetans are so low you are qualified to give others the tests, and can gain considerable fees as your part as a result.
It helps if you are a celebrity though, they get easier tests and make more money, in exchange they have to stay in the public limelight. There is a small risk of ending up in a padded room with that path though.
I know. It sucks people are always criticizing the father of the master race the great leader Adolf Hitler when they have already done that it's time to move on and talk about the good gun control measures and schooling for kids he had.
There, I just Goodwined your whinny little branch of this thread. Now go away. This is the wrong site for your complaints such as yours. Go spend your time whitewashing the rest of the republican agenda on Digg or something.
Coming from a guy that is overweight has terrible taste in web site colors, scamming his visitors for his pile of shit web site and quite obviously a pill popping faggot you got a lot of nerve making those assumptions.